Women's Recovery Champion

Women’s Recovery Champion
Location: Southend-on-Sea
Salary: £26,000 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time (35 hours per week)
An exciting opportunity to join a dynamic Recovery Support Team in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, working closely with the STARS recovery community. This is a full-time role (35 hours per week) where you’ll play a key part in supporting individuals on their recovery journey across the wider Southend area.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, empathetic, and motivated practitioner with a strong understanding of professional boundaries and ideally lived experience or knowledge of recovery and the local community.
You’ll work alongside the BRiC Coordinator and wider multi-agency partners to deliver person-centred recovery support and help build strong pathways into and through recovery services.
What you’ll be doing
* Carrying a small caseload of recovery support clients
* Delivering 1:1 sessions, group work, and structured recovery interventions
* Facilitating welcome PODS and lived experience workshops
* Supporting recovery groups and service user involvement activities
* Working with partners to develop community recovery pathways
* Supporting assessments, care planning, and harm reduction approaches
* Helping clients access housing, benefits, training, and employment support
* Contributing to outcome-focused targets and service improvement
What we’re looking for
* Passion for recovery-focused, community-based support
* Ability to work confidently in a multi-agency environment
* Strong relationship-building and motivational skills
* Understanding of harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches
* Organised, reflective, and committed to professional development
Experience in recovery services or lived experience of recovery would be highly desirable.
Be part of a supportive and purpose-driven team making a real impact, helping individuals rebuild their lives, strengthen recovery, and reconnect with their communities.
About Us
We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits -
* Flexible working
* Training and development opportunities
* BHSF Cashback Scheme (optional)
* Season Ticket Loan Scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Crisis Loan Scheme
* Electric Car Scheme
* 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
* Access to Blue Light Card
* 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
* Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
* Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
* Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and do not discriminate on the basis of gender.
We welcome applications from anyone who feels they have the skills, experience and suitability to work effectively with women and girls in this role.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application